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It was so cold that the morning fog froze on all the plants in the foreground covering them with a shimmering white glow. But, as the sun rose, this quickly evaporated along with the fog. This particular photograph was made at the end of a photographic excursion that I set out upon the last week of October. I motored through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and finally to Ohio. During my journey I kept my eye open for a good early morning photo-op. I am an infamous sleepyhead and not at all an early riser, but on this morning I made an exception and caught this one.
Beautiful large professionally made Chromira prints are available. Please visit my website at Yarmouth Lane Photography for details. The original 6x7 transperancy was scanned on a Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro at 4800ppi, 16 bit color, to yield a file size of about 750MBytes. Levels were adjusted post-scan in CS2, but otherwise this is essentially unmanipulated.
This image is Copyright 2007, WJTatulinski, All Rights Reserved.
Hi Harry. Well, I will tell you what I did to this and then you decide if it qualifies as unmanipulated. This was made from a single 6x7 frame that was scanned once. From that file, I adjusted the entire sky as one layer, reducing the gamma to bring out the detail. I tried to feather that layer to reduce the transition effect of the NGD filter at the horizion line but artifacts still remain in this version. I used another layer to adjust the FG levels. Saturation was left alone. I sharpened using USM. No clone tools employed. These are standard procedures that I would have done in my darkroom years ago, no big thing.
Now, if your understanding of unmanipultated means straight from camera to screen then this does not qualify for that. But consider this, if you are shooting digital then your camera's firmware is manipulating that digital file before you even download it. The anti-aliasing filter glued to the front of the sensor is manipultating it before it even gets processed by the camera's ASIC. It was manipultated even as you shot the scene. If you are scanning film, like me, then your scanner is doing the same thing. In the digital realm no image is truly unmanipulated. It would be difficult to post an untouched contact print on the web, no? I have a rule that I never mark any of my photographs as unmanipultated because of all that I mentioned above. Please reread my into, I marked this one as "essentially unmanipultated". I probably should stick to my own rule. Sorry.
I was ready to give you a great honest critic but when I read the word UNMANIPULETED I run it to PS and since had been 100% unconvinced from your statement! Sorry!!! Harry
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{K:62768} 11/16/2007
